Epitaphs

 

Bible Verses

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I am my beloved’s and he is mine (Song of Solomon 7:10)

 

That whoever believes in him may have eternal life (John 3:15)

 

Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings (Psalm 17)

 

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God (Matthew 5:8)

 

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith (2 Timothy 4:7)

 

I sought the Lord and He heard me and delivered me from all my fears (Psalm 34:4)

 

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help (Psalm 121:1)

 

Sleep on now, and take your rest (Matthew 26:45)

 

Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust (Psalm 40:4)

 

I would hurry to my place of shelter, far from the tempest and storm (Psalm 55:8)

 

Rise up my love, my fair one and come away for lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone (Song of Solomon 2)

 

Then Jesus said Come to me all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28)

 

God will wipe away every tear from their eyes and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying, nor pain anymore (Revelation 21:4)

 

Well done, good and faithful servant. (Matthew 25;21)

 

To live is Christ and to die is gain (Philippians 1:21)

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The Lord is my Shepherd (Psalm 23)

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Short Epitaphs

 

​Beloved

 

Dearly Loved

 

Adored

 

So Loved

 

Loved and Remembered

 

In dearest memory of

 

Into the Sunshine

 

Never Forgotten

 

Uncompromisingly Unique

 

Remembered with Love

 

Love you Always

 

With a greater thing to do.

 

Love is enough.

 

Forever in our hearts.

 

Peace perfect peace

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Deep peace of the quiet Earth to you

 

Generous of heart, Constant of faith

 

Love you miss you

 

In ever loving memory of

 

Love is enough

 

May his memory be eternal

 

Always together

 

Devoted in love

 

Dance on

 

Always loving, always loved

 

Your love will light our way

 

Asleep in Jesus

 

Until we meet again

 

Rest in Peace

 

Here lies

 

An inspiration

 

In God’s care

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An inspiration to all

 

She walked in beauty

 

Together again

 

Love is waiting

 

A long life well lived

 

Gone yet not forgotten

 

Remembered with Love

 

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine

 

Great love lives on

 

Love is eternal

 

Love lives on

 

Sleep till eternity

 

Time passes, Love remains

 

We remember with open hearts

 

A free spirit

 

Precious memories of

 

Modest and Gentle of Heart

 

Now free

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Your love will light my way

 

Speak your love still once again

 

Our love is love forever

 

And the beauty of the soul revealed

 

You are always in my heart.

 

Ageless beauty, running wild

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Quotes & Sayings

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He was one who followed dreams, stars and ships

 

You may be gone from my sight but you are never gone from my heart

 

His absence is a silent grief, His life a beautiful memory. 

 

Our brief partings on Earth will appear one day as nothing besides the joy of eternity together.

 

And when the Earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. (Gibran)

 

What we keep in our memory is ours unchanged forever

 

Speak your love still once again (Edward Clinton)

 

Tears water our growth (William Shakespeare)

 

Dance, then, wherever you may be (Sydney Carter)

 

To live in the hearts of those we love is not to die (Thomas Campbell)

 

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest

 

Death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight (Rossiter Worthington Raymond)

 

Goodnight, and you will dream of me (Maurice Sendak)

 

Blessed sleep to which we all return

 

No one spread more love in a lifetime

 

Sadness is a wall between two gardens

 

Even as the sun goes down, to end the light of day, it’s rising on a new horizon, somewhere far away

 

Life is not forever. Love is

 

Where there is great love there are always miracles

 

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away

 

Where He leads me I can safely go. 

 

The song is ended but the melody lingers on (Irving Berlin)

 

Real love stories never have endings

 

Today she dances with angels

 

The ones that love us never really leave us.

 

God has you in his keeping, We have you in our hearts.

 

Step softly, a dream lies buried here (Yates)

 

You will always be in our hearts because in there you’re still alive.

 

Be sure, wherever I may roam, my heart is with your heart at home.

 

Death is only a shadow across the path to heaven.

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Deep peace of the quiet Earth to you.

 

Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day

 

Sweet are the memories that never fade

 

His life a beautiful memory, His absence a silent grief

 

There was grace in her steps, love in every gesture

 

Blessed to us is the memory of your unselfish love

 

Lost now but loved forever

 

For with God nothing shall be impossible

 

Safe in the arms of Jesus

 

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

 

I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever

 

They loved each other and taught us that love

 

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched, but are felt in the heart (Helen Keller)

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She filled every second of her life with laughter, love and happiness.

 

Too well loved to ever be forgotten                    

 

It is well, It is well, With my soul (Spafford)

 

God’s garden needs flowers

 

Called home

 

May you find comfort in the arms of an angel

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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you I could walk through my garden forever (Tennyson)

 

Ours for a little while

 

Truly a noble spirit

 

He’s gone but you can see his tracks still, in the snow of the world (Norman MacCaig)

 

His name is written in letters of love On the hearts he left at home

 

Godspeed

 

A gentle man and a gentleman

 

Don’t cry because it’s over, Smile because it happened (Dr. Seuss)

 

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die (Thomas Campbell)

 

A constant husband

 

A valiant man

 

Lived life to the full, Loving, loyal and full of laughter

 

The light of your love is shining

 

May you touch dragonflies and stars, Dance with fairies and talk to the moon.

 

Dance to the beat of the tune you hear, however measured and far away. 

 

Spirited, caring and beautiful.

 

You have given us wings to fly

 

Your love will light our way

 

Rest gently, gently rest

 

A radiant life of love and kindness

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POEMS

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Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, Love leaves a memory no one can steal.

 

Remembering you is easy, I do it every day, but there’s an ache within my heart that will never go away.

 

On angels wings you were taken away but in my heart you will always stay

 

A heart of gold stopped beating, two willing hands at rest, God broke our hearts to prove to us He only takes the best.

 

Be still Close your eyes Breathe Listen for my foot fall in your heart We are not gone but merely walk within you

 

Goodbyes are not forever, Goodbyes are not the end, They simply mean I’ll miss you until we meet again.

 

In loving memory, Your presence we miss, Your memory we treasure, Loving you always, Forgetting you never

 

She walks in beauty like a night of cloudless climes and starry skies. (Lord Byron)

 

Those we love don’t go away, They walk beside us every day, Unseen, Unheard but always near, Still loved, Still missed and always dear. 

 

The golden gates stood open, God saw you needed rest, His garden must be beautiful, He only takes the best.

 

Goodbyes are not forever, Goodbyes are not the end. They simply mean I’ll miss you, until we meet again.

 

Your life was a blessing, Your memory a treasure, You are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure
 

Life’s race well run, Life’s work well done, Life’s victory won, Now cometh rest. (Edward Parker)

 

Gone but not forgotten, Although we are apart, Your spirit lives within me, Forever in our hearts. 

 

Say not in grief that she is no more but say in thankfulness that she was; A death is not the extinguishing of a light, but the putting out of a lamp because the dawn has come. (Tagore)

 

I thought of you today, but that is nothing new, I thought about you yesterday and days before that too, I think of you in silence, I often speak your name, All I have are memories and pictures in a frame, Your memory is a keepsake from which I’ll never part, God has you in his arms, I have you in my heart.

 

Your gentle touch and your tender heart, You showered us with love from the very start, We are your garden, Your flowers filled with life, Beautifully created, We blossomed in your delight.

 

May the winds of heaven blow softly and whisper in your ear, how much we love and miss you and wish that you were here.

 

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die, I have sent up my gladness on wings, to be lost in the blue of the sky (Amelia Josephine Burr)

 

Softly the leaves of memory fall, Gently I gather and treasure them all, Unseen unheard you are always near, So missed so loved so every dear (Colin Godon-Farleigh)

 

Fly on dear boys from this dark world of strife, On to the land of promise to eternal life, They are not dead, such spirits never die, They are unquenchable, they only sleep

 

If I should go tomorrow, It would never be goodbye, For I have left my heart with you, So don’t you ever cry. The love that’s deep within me Shall reach you from the stars, You’ll feel it from the heavens and it will heal the scars. 

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May the road rise up to meet you, May the wind always be at your back, May the sun shine warm upon your face, And rains fall soft upon your fields, And until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of his hand

 

May the Lord bless you and protect you, May the Lord smile on you and be gracious to you, may the Lord show you his favor, And give

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Song Lyrics

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You raise me up so I can stand on mountains, You raise me up to walk on stormy seas, I am strong when I am on your shoulders, You raise me up to more than I can be. 

 

But one thing’s for certain, when it comes my time, I’ll leave this old world with a satisfied mind.

 

And you’ve given me the best gift that I’ve ever known, You give me purpose every day, You give me purpose in every way

 

Should we lose each other in the shadow of the evening trees I’ll wait for you And should I fall behind wait for me 

 

If I could get another chance, Another walk, Another dance with him, I’d play a song that would never ever end, How I’d love love love to dance with my father again. 

 

By the whispering shady trees I will find my sanctuary in the Lord 

 

So she took his hand in the summer sun and they walked in fields of gold.

 

Lights will guide you home 

 

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine

You make me happy when skies are gray

You'll never know dear, how much I love you

Please don't take my sunshine away

 

Cause you’ll be in my heart, yes you’ll be in my heart, from this day on, now and forever more, You’ll be in my heart, no matter what they say, You’ll be here in my heart, Always

 

So if I stand let me stand on the promise that you will pull me through

And if I can't, let me fall on the grace that first brought me to You

So if I sing let me sing for the joy that has born in me these songs

And if I weep let it be as a man who is longing for his home

 

Precious memories, unseen angels, Sent from somewhere to my soul

How they linger, ever near me, And the sacred past unfolds

Precious memories, how they linger, How they ever flood my soul

In the stillness, of the midnight, Precious sacred scenes unfold

 

Like the stars of the morning, His bright crown adorning,

They shall shine in their beauty, Bright gems for His crown.

 

There will be peace in the valley for me some day

There will be peace in the valley for me, oh, Lord, I pray

There'll be no sadness, no sorrow, no trouble I see

Only peace in the valley for me

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But until then my heart will go on singing, Until then with joy I'll carry on

Until the day my eyes behold my Savior, Until the day God calls me home

 

When peace like a river attended my way, When sorrows like sea billows roll, Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say, It is well, it is well, with my soul

 

When the dark wood fell before me And all the paths were overgrown, When the priests of pride say there is no other way I tilled the sorrows of stone

I did not believe because I could not see Though you came to me in the night

When the dawn seemed forever lost 

You showed me your love in the light of the stars

Cast your eyes on the ocean Cast your soul to the sea

When the dark night seems endless Remember me

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Additional Sayings

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• If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever.

• In memories we find comfort, in love we find peace.

• Gone from our sight but not from our hearts.

• To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is never to die.

• Too well loved to ever be forgotten.

• The song has ended but the melody lingers on.

• Step softly, a dream lies buried here.

• At the going down of the sun, and in the morning we will remember you.

• Your love will light my way, your memory will forever be with me.

• Death is only a shadow across the path to heaven.

• In memory of a life so beautifully lived, love so deeply shared, and spirit so deeply missed.

• A mother’s love lasts forever.

• Her life was full of love, her heart filled with joy.

• A wife's love is life's treasure.

• A mother's love is a divine blessing.

• In loving memory of a wife and mother like no other.

• She will be forever cherished, loved, and remembered.

• Her love, a symphony, now echoes through the ages.

• Together in life, in love, and forever.

• She loved deeply and left a legacy of grace.

• Her light will shine eternally.

• He guided us and leaves behind a legacy of strength.

• A husband's love is earth’s most precious treasure.

• We can still hear his laughter echoing through time.

• A father's wisdom is a light that shines forever.

• I find peace and comfort in remembering how it felt to be held in your arms.

• My dear husband, my rock, my strength.

• O Lord, I put him in thy hands.

• He was the embodiment of strength and love.

• To those who knew and loved him, his memory will never grow old.

• Our father was a guiding light, a king without a crown.

• So small, so sweet, so soon.

• Budded on earth to bloom in heaven.

• Goodnight, my angel, time to close your eyes.

• Rest easy, sweet child.